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We have plans for ourselves when we’re playing the game of life. We have all the hopes and dreams in the world to make it to the financial and spiritual peak of our respective mountains. The reality is sometimes the path getting there is hardly the shiny yellow-brick road we anticipated. Our contemporary reality is […]

What a drama it’s been for small dollar lending (SDL) these last 40 years. From the late 1970s through the 1980s, a series of federal law developments resulting in banking deregulation gave rise to the predatory payday lending storefronts of the early 1990s through this 21st century. Predatory lending certainly took advantage in the early […]